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Chromosomal analysis in young vs. senescent human fibroblasts by fluorescence in situ hybridization: a selection hypothesis. Export

Mechanisms of ageing and development, Vol. 80, No. 1. (21 April 1995), pp. 11-23.

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Almost all previous studies on chromosomal analysis related to in vitro aging of human fibroblasts were done using only metaphase chromosomes. However, this procedure may provide only partial information since the aneuploidy presumably hidden in interphase cells would remain undetected. For this reason, we have analyzed aneuploidy both at interphase and at metaphase. Female (IMR-90) and male (IMR-91) cells were grown from the lowest to the highest population doubling levels and aneuploidy analysis was done by FISH with alpha-satellite DNA probes of 15 autosomes and two sex chromosomes. Our data on total aneuploidy in young cells indicate that significantly higher proportions of cells with aneuploidy can be detected at interphase than at metaphase. This presumably indicates that during active division of young cells, more aneuploid than diploid cells are selected against entry to mitosis. In contrast, interphase senescent cells from both strains show significantly fewer aneuploid nuclei than do young cells at interphase. This probably indicates that during senescence, there is greater selective pressure in the culture against long-term survival of aneuploid cells than against survival of diploid cells. Our study shows that cellular dynamics with respect to aneuploidy involving various chromosomes differs significantly at interphase and at mitosis during in vitro aging of human fibroblasts, and we propose a 'Selection Hypothesis' as an explanation to our findings.


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